Rafael moneo

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of the cars, to the structures of the city, to the patterns of textiles - to find the...